Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger of hitching your reputation to scholarship is that once you build a research factory, you cannot readily convert your vast plan to the production of educated alumni. For if scholarship is to be anything, it must be cosmopolitan. The scholar must therefore speak to a national or international audience, not to the local parish. Such an audience naturally focusses his first loyalty in the universal "discipline," rather than on his employer, the local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly...
...opportunity to think about his recent conversion and about his new status of widower. Yet he is already sitting in judgment. In a bar he is telling a Belgian prostitute he has just met that "making men happy" is wrong. A Catholic too, she replies: "You are obviously a convert. They are always so scrupulous...
Eight Days is a novel in which conscience is a disease, the state of grace a beckoning Everest. It also happens to be a brilliant thriller, the kind of suspense story on which Graham Greene once had the patent. British Author Gabriel Fielding, himself a Catholic convert, has already proved (In the Time of Greenbloom; TIME, June 10, 1957) that he is one of the most skillful novelists writing in English. He is also a successful physician who knows what few physicians and equally few novelists seem to recognize: that each man's nature is a separate case, that...
...Mlkvy's brilliant performance was only half of the story; the consistently terrible play of the Crimson was the other. Forced into taking poor shots--usually from beyond the 20-foot mark, the varsity was able to convert only 19 of 80 field goal attempts for an unhappy 23 per cent...
...University will convert a recently acquired building at 1705 Massachusetts Ave. into a co-operative residence for members of Dudley House, according to Master Delmar Leighton...